A History of Connecticut's Deadliest Tornadoes: Catastrophe by Robert Hubbard

By Robert Hubbard

The Wallingford twister of 1878 took under mins, however it killed on the fee of 1 individual in step with moment. Twisters in Connecticut are exceptionally infrequent, yet they�re frequently disastrous and occasionally lethal. The Windsor twister of 1979 destroyed a box of plane that had survived global battle II. The 1787 Wethersfield twister ripped off a barn roof in New Britain, traveled directly to Newington and at last subsided in Wethersfield after destroying a relations farm. Locals take note the 1989 cyclone that ripped via Hamden and price the country thousands of greenbacks in upkeep. sign up for neighborhood writer Robert Hubbard as he stocks the stories of those ordinary mess ups and those that witnessed them.

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